Arnt

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by Arnt 2y ago
There's high demand now but a new building has to earn its keep for many decades. They're skyrocketing because of x, and x is because of y, and y is… the ultimate reason is that too little is being built. AFAICT too little is be
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by Arnt 2y ago
If I understand the polls correctly, the federal government was intended to be what it is, in the sense that the parts were intentional. Medicare was intended, and so on. Each of the parts that have large numbers of employees or large bud
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by Arnt 2y ago
I think this is a little too simple to be correct. For those who aren't familiar with the details, German law makes the cities compute and update a set of average rents based on location, standard and IIRC four other criteria. It'
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by Arnt 2y ago
The market was a tenant's paradise and correspondongly bad for landlords… and then many landlords moved to a different market. This has happened before, for example there have been cases where governments set the price of bread below p
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by Arnt 2y ago
I would guess: not in the near future. But if it's not required by any contract and has no paying customers, a service tends to wither slowly... and die at some point. /usr/bin/whois can use the RDAP protocol of course.
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by Arnt 2y ago
https://archive.is/4iDDu I think these guys are saying that Apple may lose money on xcode, developer relations etc but that has no connection to any income made by distributing apps.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Have been to both. Based just on looks, I'd say it does the same, but differently… a lot of money spent, but less money and also less waste. China's built about a zillion coal-fired power plants recently, for example, and is build
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by Arnt 2y ago
I'm curious — if that's your attitude, why not all bots? You can say "User-Agent: foo\nDisallow:\n\nUser-Agent: *\nDisallow: /" to allow only named bots and reject them by default.
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by Arnt 2y ago
I've heard that too. Your posting inspired me to check. I see daily accesses from claudebot and gtpbot to /robots.txt on two sites. Also from something called amazonbot, which may be another AI bot?
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by Arnt 2y ago
Or a landlord with two dozen apartments.
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by Arnt 2y ago
They try to do the same thing: offer all the products, let all sellers sell, without much organization. The the result looks similar makes sense.
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by Arnt 2y ago
You're telling the guy who pays for development to keep paying. Everything was well so long as Automattic paid and you went along for free, right? You can tell him he's a dick for messing with the status quo and most people will a
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by Arnt 2y ago
Things imported from a third country, such as China, sort of cost more. PPP is strongly affected by the cost of locally grown potatoes, locally made milk, locally performed plumbing repairts. PPP is about adjusting exchange rates to keep &q
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by Arnt 2y ago
Yes... WP Engine doesn't want to, that's why this started in the first place, Automattic is reallocating its developers to private addons as of last Friday, has anytime offered to dedicate developers to the open source code? Repla
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by Arnt 2y ago
GP asked about peak oil demand. Remember that that depends on much more than ICE cars. Very roughly speaking there are four big components to oil demand: furnaces and similar, oil/gas-based electricity plants, ICEs including cars, and
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by Arnt 2y ago
You have it backwards. Mississippi residents earn more than UK ones at current $/£ exchange rates, but the costs of goods and services in Mississippi are so much higher than in the UK that once you include that difference in your compa
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by Arnt 2y ago
I've heard assessments like "probably October 24", which may be true or false, but the fact that they are being made says that the peak is roughly now. Who cares about exactly when? I care more about how steep the curve downw
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by Arnt 2y ago
Well, I've seen a rewrite that worked. The CEO used the software, including the signup processes. I've also seen a sequence of gradual changes that broke badly. Nobody in management used any part of the product. I don't think
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by Arnt 2y ago
Customs paperwork facilitators, consultants and similar service providers.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Question. We know that one major WP company is refusing to put significant working time into the project, that's how this started. Earlier this week another reduced its effort to match. But have any hosters offered to increase their ef
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by Arnt 2y ago
The point is at most as strong as the share of innovative medicines in health care. Which doesn't seem all that big to me as layman. My home country (where I don't live now, due to marriage) reformed its health care system to cl
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by Arnt 2y ago
Reminds me of when the brexit clowns threatened to set about iexit.
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by Arnt 2y ago
https://verfassungsblog.de/ein-volkskanzler/ is a quite readable story of how the same thing might play out now in a possible democracy. If reading it scares you, that makes two of us. In German, I'm sure it'
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by Arnt 2y ago
I think you're implying that a firing a few people with those nice million-dollar salaries and spending those millions on hospital care would make a significant difference. But the US is a country where a single hospital stay can cost
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by Arnt 2y ago
GP mentioned "many facilities moving to the US", none of those three even mention the US.
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by Arnt 2y ago
GP (HackerThemAll) ignores the difference between the electricity grid and total power usage, which includes things like ICE cars and oil furnaces. The electricity grid in .de is growing decent, at 62% renewables now. There are still a lot
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by Arnt 2y ago
Do you have done examples of that? I ask because I live in a German city where several large multinationals have their headquarters, and I haven't heard about this happening to any of those companies.
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by Arnt 2y ago
Another poster here wrote that the profit margins at those companies are about 6%, and the overall costs on the order of 30%. Meaning that if the profit drops to zero, the health insurer could only pay for eight days instead of seven withou
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by Arnt 2y ago
Uhm... Google collects says and more data, maybe? I personally think that "don't be evil" really means something. It doesn't mean "don't do things I have determined to be evil after three seconds of thought&quo
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by Arnt 2y ago
I feel that it's really quite strange how imprecise these numbers are. Fwiw I'm Norwegian, married to a German and live in Germany. Somehow the prices in Norway have shrunk by 30% for me in recent years. Why? Can't tell. 30%.

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